As a dedicated resource to helping hospitals achieve the Triple Aim, AHA Solutions has partnered with Interactive Health to help our hospitals improve their employee's health, as well as their bottom line.

AS AN organization with a 115-year history, nonprofit Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has seen employee benefit trends come and go since well before the creation of Social Security.

This guide is designed to define population health, describe strategies to improve the health of a hospital’s patient population, inform leaders why these initiatives are essential, and explore potential partnerships that can help achieve the desired goal.

This case study outlines the methods by which Geisinger Health System identified and fixed gaps in post-discharge care, using telehealth. Comprehensive Case Management with IVR yielded dramatic results.

Based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index and developed by the University of Michigan School of Business, Avatar’s survey development and framework is based is the most researched customer loyalty model in the world.

Learn how Two Valley Baptist Health System hospitals reduced readmission rates by 51.1% from 2011 to 2013 by changing their approach to readmission management and by implementing Walgreens WellTransitions program.1

The report provides analysis to guide healthcare plan sponsors and their advisors as they benchmark their organizations in many areas of plan design and management, in order to critically evaluate opportunities for improvement.

The 2014 AHA Environmental Scan provides insight and information about market forces that have a high probability of affecting the health care field. It is designed to help hospital and health system leaders better understand the health care landscape.

Learn about the cumulative effect the Affordable Care Act's major incentive for health care organizations can have on providing the most effective services possible for LEP patients before, during, and after treatment.

Source. Evaluate. Interview. Give feedback. Gather feedback. Compare results. Finally — make a hiring decision. These are the 7 steps of the hiring process for most organizations, but they don’t tell the whole story.

As technology becomes more prevalent in every aspect of patient care, hospitals are looking for new ways to incorporate the best equipment as a tool to streamline operations and improve the patient experience.

On April 27th, 2011, an unstable front bore down on several Southeastern US states, producing a recordbreaking number of tornadoes. Alabama emerged as ground zero for the devastation, with over 250 people losing their lives.

Many hospitals have made a successful transition to EMR, with widespread adoption throughout the hospital. Organizations with successful adoptions have made sure to achieve physician and clinician acceptance before and during the transition to EMR - and to minimize the effect of the new technology on workflow.

Learn how HealthcareSource behavioral-based assessments exceeded their expectations in how they are able to evaluate employees, conduct a structured interview process and improve their hiring decisions.

Effective cost management and improved efficiencies are critical to the future success of health care providers. Stronger margins and cash flows are needed to generate capital capacity and support ongoing and strategic investments.

Learn how leading long-term care facilties slash turnoverrates, and now hire and retain employees that fit their mission and culture by using HealthcareSource Staff Assessment, formerly TestSource HSI.

At Memorial Healthcare, technology is a means to better patient care. With Imprivata OneSign, they were able to secure unattended desktops, enable One-Touch Desktop Roaming and implement strong, multifactor authentication for clinicians.

When time studies revealed that the medical center's 300+ physicians were collectively spending 400 hrs/mo just logging into and out of their clinical applications, Riverside's IT team knew there had to be a better way. Enter Single Sign-on from Imprivata.

Repeatedly recognized as one of the 100 top hospitals in the US, using Imprivata OneSign, Southwest has met the hospital's core objectives of providing better service to physicians, improving the productivity of its workforce, and meeting security and compliance requirements.

Learn how IU Health has transformed its hiring process, reduced its time to fill, and lowered first year turnover rate by using the combination of Position Manager and HealthcareSource Staff and Leadership Assessments.

EMQ FamiliesFirst is California's largest and most comprehensive social service agency for children and families. With the deployment of Halogen Software's award-winning talent management suite, EMQ FamiliesFirst has become a more agile organization that is better able to respond to client needs.

Christiana Care Health System places a strong emphasis on employee performance and engagement in support of corporate values, which include caring, patient safety and quality. Their talent management program helps employees clearly understand the link between these values and the work they do.

Cabell Huntington Hospital modernized its employee performance management (EPM) system in order to upgrade a redundant paper-based system that failed to meet its needs and was costly in terms of time and money.

By implementing Halogen eAppraisal Healthcare, Lutheran Life Communities in Illinois has been able to create an employee performance and talent management system that reflects the organization's focus on the human side of things and building strong relationships.

King's Daughters Medical Center is using Halogen eAppraisal to successfully compete with other area medical centers for skilled talent, and reduce time spent on manual HR tasks allowing more focus on strategy.

This guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) presents step-by-step instructions to plan and implement patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.

Integrated hospital-physician arrangements are critical to the future success of health care providers in the New Era, but the financial impact of integrating these operations represents a growing challenge for hospital budgets.

With cost management and quality outcomes a greater concern than ever before in the New Era, hospital executives must become more proactive in managing their human resources to ensure they have the right number of professionals staffed in the right department at the right time.

Whether your organization is a large, multihospital system with facilities in one or more states or a small system with numerous facilities in one region, creating a rational service distribution system is key to success in the New Era.

In an increasingly competitive and financially constrained environment, health care leaders must identify and pursue growth opportunities that will improve their organizations’ strategic financial performance. Acquiring or merging with another organization frequently offers advantages that exceed those of other strategies.

When Sharp began implementing Cerner Millennium in its hospitals in 2006, it soon discovered that OnBase delivered value across all departments, including enabling the EMRs to provide clinicians with a complete patient record.